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Elizabeth Shwe was a Report for America corps member at Maryland Matters through May 2022. She previously covered California state politics during an internship at The Sacramento Bee. She is a 2020 graduate of Princeton University with a degree in political science. At Princeton she was a producer for WPRB 103.3 FM News & Culture section, the station’s only long form podcast-type program. Shwe also wrote for The Daily Princetonian, and tutored with the Petey Greene Program, which offers free tutoring to incarcerated people.
When Dasia Kavia signed a lease for her first business in the Locust Point neighborhood of Baltimore, she had no idea a global pandemic…
In an effort to expedite COVID-19 vaccine access to teachers, Baltimore City Public Schools partnered with Johns Hopkins Medicine to begin vaccinating teachers and…
Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Smith announced Thursday that he will retire in June for family reasons. In a pre-recorded video on the…
Lawmakers pushed state Department of Health officials Wednesday for more clarity on how COVID-19 vaccines would be rolled out, after recent complaints of slow…
Advocates have already found creative ways to mobilize around the unusual General Assembly session. Surrounded by about 20 cutout life-size images of students, advocates…
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation announced Tuesday that it has selected Josh Kurtz as its new Maryland Director. Kurtz had been the policy and government…
Maryland would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% and plant 5 million trees by 2030, under a revamped, ambitious climate change bill that lawmakers…
Democrats intend to override Republican Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s veto of a 10-year multibillion-dollar education reform effort, but it may not happen until…
Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) named Juanita Miller, a former state delegate, to succeed Alvin Thornton as the chair of Prince…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan (R) on Wednesday approved the nomination of attorney Marlon Amprey to the House of Delegates to replace former Del. Nick…